HMS Sprightly
At least six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sprightly:
- HMS Sprightly (1777) was a 12 gun cutter built in Dover in August 1777, that sank 23 December 1777 off Guernsey
- HMS Sprightly (1778) was a 10-gun cutter captured by the French ship Cassard in the Mediterranean Sea in 1801, and subsequently scuttled
- HMS Sprightly (1818) was a 6-gun Nightingale-class cutter built for the Royal Navy during the 1810s. Wrecked off the Isle of Portland in 1821.
- HMS Sprightly (1837) was a tender in service 1837-69, formerly a Post Office packet ship built in 1823.
- HMS Sprightly (1900) was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer, launched in 1900 and scrapped in 1920
- HMS Sprightly (P268) was an S-class submarine, ordered in 1943 but cancelled because of the end of World War II
See also
- HMAS Sprightly, Royal Australian Navy tugboat
- HM Revenue Cutter Sprightly, which wrecked on the Isle of Portland on 8 January 1821
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